Tag: garimpeiros

• Monday, February 6th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

  Garimpeiros leave Yanomami land before armed forces takeover

  

  Illegal miners known as garimpeiros are beginning to leave the lands of the Yanomami indigenous peoples after a federal raid to evict them was announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara told reporters Sunday.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil: Two reported dead in new clash involving garimpeiros

  

  A new armed confrontation allegedly involving garimpeiros has left at least two people dead and five others injured in Brazil's Yanomami Indigenous Land, it was reported.